Let me take a moment to do Bunnie Diehl's work for her. (Thank me, Bunnie.)

So here is Christianity Today on the National Prayer Breakfast. Key 'graph:

The prayer breakfast, begun during the Eisenhower administration, historically draws 3,600 attendees from 155 nations, including heads of state. A low-profile group commonly known as Fellowship Foundation sponsors the annual event. The group's well-connected members around the world work behind the scenes to provide members of Congress and foreign dignitaries with spiritual encouragement and fellowship. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minnesota, who co-chaired the breakfast with Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Arkansas, is the event's first Jewish chair.

Then CT goes and kind of confuses the matter. They write that King Abdullah of Jordan, according to his advisor Joseph Lumbard, "wants to engage in a deeper dialogue with Catholics and members of other Christian traditions."

"We all have an interest in a secure and just peace in the Holy Land," Lumbard said. He added that the king has also been trying to "help evangelicals come to a more thorough understanding of the traditional teachings of Islam" and address misunderstandings resulting from the claims of extremists. Following the luncheon he met with a select group of evangelical leaders.

Color me crazy, but doesn't that kind of retroactively go and make the whole Prayer Breakfast kind of, you know, Evangelical and Protestant? When, at long last, this year any pretense to being a Christian gathering was finally dropped and it is finally and matter-of-factly a gathering of Interfaith American Civil Religion? When even "the Fellowship" has for years resisted being called Christian? (Remember, it's "Jesus plus Nothing"?)

Just asking.

[Ed.–BTW, what do you think of the Jeff Sharlet piece on Sam Brownback in Rolling Stone? Well, not that much. It's cringe-inducing, sure, because it involves Sam Brownback; but my respect for Sharlet continues to wane. He used to be God-haunted, but he now seems to find it much easier to be a sort of Side Show Barker of Freaks, Geeks and Deaks of American Religious Life for an eye-rolling Upper East Side audience. This is not a hard job.]